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Monday, May 01, 2006

Florida Politics: Governor ‘s Race

I predict that Rod Smith- Democrat and Charlie Crist- Republican will be the contenders to be the next governor of Florida.

Both men are addressing crucial issues to citizens utilizing their current respective positions.

Smith has proposed election reforms such as verified voting & measures to restore confidence in the new electronic voting systems.

Crist is discussing investigations of Oil Companies and price gaulging.

Both issues are very important to Floridians. The candidate which is most successful in their efforts will cause many swing voters to support them.

My initial oppostion to Charlie Crist was that he was not using his position as Florida Attorney General to purse the Oil Companies. This could be a major Democratic campaign strategy against him. His recent moves shows that he is aware of this lack of action. This may be the issue that wins the election.

4 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Rod Smith cosponsored the bill in 2001 that eliminated paper ballots in the first place. His interest in voting reform is an election year pander. Much like his sudden interest in teacher pay, he has never had an interest in these issues before and if he wasnt running for governor, you would not hear anything coming from him on these issues.

I don't see how Smith can possibly win the primary against Davis. He may have the better ideas (may), but Davis has an edge on him when it comes to two very important things: 1) He's outfundraising the guy, and 2) Democratic voters are lining up behind Davis in droves...

I'm not saying he's the better candidate for the general, I just don't see how Davis can lose to Smith, barring some incredible scandal, or his death